Improvised toe-up pattern using Judy’s magic cast-on to start.

Knitting 2 socks at once using one set of circular needles.

Making it with after-thought heel (instead of gusset heel as I had intended), because I’d accidentally knitted too much, and would have to frog some rows if I used a gusset heel.

Total width: 42 sts

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Cable pattern (knitted circularly, ie. no WS):

Row 1: k2 p2 k2 p1 k2 p2 k2

Row 2: k2 p2, sl 3 sts to cable hold at back, k2, p1 from cable, k2 from cable, p2 k2

Row 3: (as row 1)

Row 4: cr3f cr3b p1 cr3f cr3b

Row 5: p1 k4 p3 k4 p1

Row 6: p1 c4b p3 c4f p1

Row 7: (as row 5)

Row 8: cr3b cr3f p1 cr3b cr3f

Row 9: (as row 1)

Row 10: k2 p2, sl 3 sts to cable hold at front, k2, p1 from cable, k2 from cable, p2 k2

Row 11 to 16 as row 3 to 8 (alternating row 1 and 10 every set).

cr3f = sl 2 sts to cable hold at front, p1 then k2 from cable

cr3b = sl 1 st to cable hold at back, k2 then p1 from cable

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10 April 2014 update

Left some provisional stitches for the afterthought heel. But when I have finished it, I found that as bed socks, they worked rather well as tubes and didn’t really need a heel. So I’m just weaving in the provisional stitches and leaving them as tubes!

Used invisible bind-off for the top, which worked quite well.